Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...
...Basque defenses. A monster fleet of 63 airplanes sent bombs whistling into the suburb of Lezama, more into the trenches at strategic Lemona Mountain. After heavy artillery preparation and machine gun strafing from the air, 30 tanks lumbered up the slope followed by Rightist infantry. Announced the Insurgents: "The hill is entirely in our hands...
...Baldwin; John R. Bemis; Benjamin L. Bird; Nicholas Blatchford; Richard W. Burnett; John C. Carpenter; Edmund S. Childs, Jr.; George O. Clark, Jr.; James S. Clarke; David S. Cohen; William C. Coleman, Jr.; Henry A. Curwen; Ralph H. Cutler, Jr.; Hamilton W. Daughaday; Charles D'Autremont; David B. Hill; John L. Donnell; Beverly C. Dunn, Jr.; John D. Edgarton; William M. Fetcher; Richard F. Foss; Paul L. Franken; Joseph J. Geehern; Jerome L. Gilbert; Robert J. Glaser; Edwin St. J. Greble, 3d.; Frederick W. Griffin; Charles D. Griffith; David G. Halstead; Emrys C. Harris; Robert W. Harvey; Raymond F. Healey...
...exclaimed last week upon the floor: "Two weeks ago he had the power to override one of the ablest members of the House of Representatives and his subcommittee-I refer to the gentleman from Virginia [Clifton Alexander Woodrum]. A week ago, according to the press, he came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House resent...
Called The Hunt, the Gropper picture is a sombre scene in deep yellows. Armed men and dogs are coursing through a scrubby thicket under a hill. The grim haste of the figures plainly implies that The Hunt's quarry is Man. Explained Artist Gropper: "I felt the irony of the hunt-the sportsman's equal pleasure in hunting game and hunting Negroes-and I decided to commit it to paint...